About
Supply expertise built in the field, not the classroom.
PATHWAY5 is the work of a practitioner who has operated in industrial supply environments where a procurement failure is not a budget problem — it is a shutdown.
Background
Carina N Beger
Carina N Beger is a procurement and supply chain specialist with hands-on experience in high-risk industrial categories — fuels, chemicals, explosives, industrial gases, and critical infrastructure inputs. These are categories where supply continuity is not a performance target, it is an operational prerequisite.
Her work sits at the intersection of procurement strategy, supply risk, and operational reality. She has developed frameworks and strategies for environments where theoretical models break down — where infrastructure constraints, supplier concentration, and market dynamics create exposure that standard procurement approaches fail to manage.
The organisations that absorb supply disruptions are the ones that understood their exposure before the event.
The PATHWAY5™ Framework
Why the framework exists
Most procurement frameworks are built for categories where supply is substitutable, lead times are predictable, and a failed supplier can be replaced. They produce cost savings and vendor scorecards. They are not built for environments where the product is regulated, the logistics are constrained, and the supply base is thin.
PATHWAY5™ was developed specifically for those environments. The five pillars — Procurement structure, Access and infrastructure, Terms and risk allocation, Health, safety and regulatory, and Workforce and capability — reflect the dimensions of risk that matter in industrial supply systems, and that standard procurement models overlook.
The output is not a vendor shortlist or a cost reduction target. It is a supply position — understood, stress-tested, and structured to hold.
How we work
Not a consultancy. A specialist.
PATHWAY5 does not operate as a large advisory firm with generalised procurement capability across every category. Engagements are focused, selective, and grounded in the specific risk environment of each client.
The work is built on direct experience — not frameworks imported from general practice. If you are managing procurement in a category where failure has operational consequences, that is where PATHWAY5 operates.
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